Baroque

Meaning

1. Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
2. Overly and needlessly complicated.
3. A period in Western architecture, art, and music from c. 1600–1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.
4. Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
5. From or characteristic of the Baroque period.
6. The chess variant invented in 1962 by mathematician Robert Abbott, or any of its descendants, where pieces move alike, but have differing methods of capture.
7. Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
8. Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
9. Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
10. An ornate, detailed style.

Etymology / origin

Via French (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape) from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco and Sicilian baroccu, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verruca (“wart”), or possibly from the technical construction of scholastic logic, Baroco.

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